urban music
Metropolitan musical genres
Urban music is a broad and somewhat contested term for popular music genres associated with Black American culture, including hip-hop, R&B, soul, and their derivatives.
The label emerged in the radio and record industries as a marketing category, though many artists and critics reject it as a euphemism that awkwardly groups diverse genres by racial association rather than musical characteristics.
The station switched to an urban music format in the 1990s.
- R&BSoulful pop genre
- hip-hopRhythmic spoken-word music
- grimeIngrained surface dirt
- neo-soulOrganic, jazz-tinged R&B revival
- DrakeAdult male duck
trap · bass drop · street culture · inner city · street corner · sampling · The Roots · drum machines · funk · Kendrick Lamar · sound system · crate digging · New York City · block parties · 808s · beatboxing · autotune · Tupac Shakur
urban musiccountry music
Rural Southern folk-pop genre
folk music · country and western · bluegrass · hillbilly music · mountain music
urban musicacoustic music
Sound without amplification
folk · bluegrass · singer-songwriter · traditional music · roots music